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The China Development Research Foundation, a think tank that advises the government, just issued a report calling on Beijing to spend 2.6 trillion renminbi (about $370 billion) on social programs by 2012. Lu Mai, the secretary-general of the foundation, notes that the government has started down this road with...
China and the U.S. are passing one another going in opposite directions. Deng Xiaoping, who ran China after Mao had become a tourist attraction lying in a glass box in Beijing, began moving the country to a capitalist economy. By the time he died in 1997, China had begun vigorous...
A few years ago, the Chinese called it their "Going Out" strategy. State-owned companies in key industries were being encouraged by the government to plant the flag of Chinese capitalism around the world by purchasing stakes in foreign companies. China was booming, flush with cash and full of optimism...
These were expensive lessons, but make no mistake: Beijing has not decided staying home is better than "Going Out." State companies are still sitting on mountains of cash, and although China's economy is slowing, officials see the global recession as a prime opportunity to cheaply acquire holdings of strategically...
It's not just minerals Beijing is now frantic to buy. On March 3, China National Petroleum Corp. agreed to buy Calgary based Verenex Energy, which has a 50% stake in a huge Libyan oilfield, for $390 million. The China Development Bank and China Petroleum & Oil Corp. last month invested...